Franklin Telecom Introduces Internet Gatekeeper
Franklin Gatekeeper Optimizes VoIP Interoperability
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999-- Franklin
Telecom announced today that it is introducing its new Franklin
Gatekeeper this week in Los Angeles. The Gatekeeper enables
interoperability between Franklin's family of VoIP products and H.323
compliant products from other vendors.
Franklin's Tempest® Data Voice Gateway Systems equipped with the
Gatekeeper can enable Computer to Phone, Computer to Computer and Web to
Call Center communications. (The Tempest DVG also facilitates calls from
any phone to any other phone.) The Gatekeeper can be run on the same
Microsoft NT Server that is running Franklin's proprietary
Authentication, Mapping, and Settlement (AMAS)/Billing system.
The Gatekeeper is available as an annual software support license. This
will insure Franklin customers that as standards evolve and become more
sophisticated, their Gatekeepers will keep pace with these changes.
The Gatekeeper, in conjunction with other Franklin Telecom products,
will be demonstrated March 2-4th at CTExpo '99 at the Los Angeles
Convention Center. Franklin Telecom will be in Booth 3301. This is the
second of four announcements that will be made prior to the show.
The primary business of Franklin Telecom, founded in 1981, is the design
and manufacturing of communications devices, high speed LAN, WAN, Telco
and software. Franklin customers have installed over 100,000 nodes
worldwide. Franklin's Internet subsidiary FNet provides Voice over
Internet Protocol global Telco services.
Certain statements in this press release constitute ''forward-looking
statements'' within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of
1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results,
performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different
from any future results, performance or achievements, expressed or
implied by such forward-looking statements.
For additional information about this announcement, visit the Officer's
Message page at Franklin's Web Site: -- www.ftel.com -- www.franklin.net
- for Internet Services and Access -- www.fnet.net - for Internet
Telephony & Franklin's Next Generation Telephone Company
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Contact:
Franklin Telecom
Helen West for Shareholder Relations, 805/373-8688
or
Debra Kent for Media Relations 805/373-8688 |
